Jerry Dennis lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and has been a full-time freelance writer since 1986. His essays and articles in The New York Times, Gray's Sporting Journal, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Smithsonian, and Audubon, and his regular columns in Wildlife Conservation and Canoe and Kayak, have won numerous awards and are frequently reprinted and anthologized.
Dennis's books include "Canoeing Michigan Rivers", "It's Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky", and "A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home".
"It's Raining Frogs and Fishes" was named the best outdoor book of 1992 by the Outdoor Writers Association of America and has been translated into Japanese, German, Chinese, and Portuguese. "A Place on the Water", a collection of essays about fishing, canoeing, and exploring nature in northern Michigan, has been widely praised by critics who have compared Dennis to such writers as Aldo Leopold, John Voelker, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Sigurd Olson. He is currently at work on a new book, "The Bird in the Waterfall: A Natural History of Oceans, Rivers, and Lakes", which will be published in May, 1996, by HarperCollins.